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As a two-year global celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s work commences, Neva Grant interviews two experts on the great composer to explore his legacy and the creation of the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet,...
Irregularly scheduled series of musical specials featuring Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Bernstein compares the beat in Shakespeare’s verse to rhythms in jazz, Beethoven’s...
Television documentary that follows conductor Leonard Bernstein as he records, over four days, the first complete recording of West Side Story. Filmed in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra,...
Radio broadcast. Graham Fawcett reflects on Romeo and Juliet as interpreted by composers Bernstein, Bellini and Gounod.
Radio series, hosted by Paul Lazarus, celebrating the American musical theatre. This programme includes excerpts from a Dramatists Guild symposium with panelists Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur...
US cultural magazine series hosted by Alistair Cooke. In this episode Leonard Bernstein contends that since music is received directly by the heart and does not need to be processed by the brain first, opera...
Radio documentary. As part of a three-hour tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bernstein’s musical, two documentary programmes look at the origins of the musical, how it made its way to Broadway,...
Film version of the musical inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Updates the play to a story of rival teenage gangs (The Sharks and The Jets) in New York. Set in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, with...
Steven Spielberg’s period film adaptation, set in the 1950s, of the stage musical by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins that was inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and...
First concert in a week’s series of BBC Radio 3 ‘Afternoon Performances’ dedicated to showcasing music written for and inspired by the works of Shakespeare and other literary authors. The...